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Too Scared to Go To Egypt....??
We heard many strange, inappropriate or just downright bizarre comments and questions from various people in our group - we were around 70 in total, all Americans except for one lone Aussie lady traveling with her now-American sister from Kansas. But perhaps the craziest of all came from a lady from...
Nile End
Aswan, a much more developed and buzzing city than Luxor is now and in fact always has been the end of the navigable Nile - just south of the city is the first of the Nile’s six cataracts (even though the river flows from south to north, the ancient Egyptians numbered them from north to south). The...
“Are There Sharks In The River….?”
We’re now at “ground zero” of Egypt’s ancient civilization! On the east bank of the Nile, Luxor, the ancient city of Thebes, is some 1000 km and an hour’s flight south (that is upstream) of Cairo. A city of more than half a million people, Luxor and the nearby Valley of the Kings on the opposite ban...
“Spend More Time Getting There.....”
It must be something about us and Viking Cruises (marketing tag line “Spend less time getting there and more time being there”). Our experience with the company seems to be exactly the opposite. A year ago we were 30 hours late arriving in China for a Yangtze River cruise; this time, we’re delayed 2...